Some VA workers are great some are there because of social hiring practices. It is the system, a combination of military/civilian bureaucracy. The military way of delivering health care may be OK for healthy active service members but no so good for the aging and sick. Think of a ten bay quick oil change place for a procedure like a colonoscopy. Show up put on the gown and wait for a stall to open. When the "veteran", that is what they call us, turn comes he is put on the hoist and three people do different to him and out in 15 minutes; NEXT.

The "veteran" never sees the same practitioner twice. The practitioner may not even be qualified to practice in the state but as long as VA qualified the state has no say or over site.

That doesn't bother me as much as the VA telling us how great they are and how great we are. Tell me to F off, you are lucky to get what you get and I would respect that. I'm better off than most as I have private health insurance to go back to, I tried the VA because they told me how great they are and how thrilled they would be to serve me.

I'm calling B.S. on any attempt to reform the VA health care system. The only way they can give the "veteran" who they are "proud to serve" "the best health care" is to give them a card good in the private sector. Anything less is playing politics. If the country can't afford it at least have the courtesy to tell the "veteran" you are lucky to get the crumbs form our table.

I tried the VA because they told me how great they are and how thrilled they would be to serve me.

Even though they tried that on me, I knew better. The only way I'll go to a VA hospital is if I'm carried there without my knowledge because I'm unconscious.

This is how sneaky they are. I qualified for an "Agent Orange" evaluation and physical. They treated me well, it was exactly like a private sector physical but was a bate and switch. Even with the military type medical care it would be tolerable if it wasn't for the bureaucracy. A bureaucracy is not the place to get life and death care.

Even though they tried that on me, I knew better. The only way I'll go to a VA hospital is if I'm carried there without my knowledge because I'm unconscious.

Same here.

This is how sneaky they are. I qualified for an "Agent Orange" evaluation and physical. They treated me well, it was exactly like a private sector physical but was a bate and switch. Even with the military type medical care it would be tolerable if it wasn't for the bureaucracy. A bureaucracy is not the place to get life and death care.

100% agree.Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
--- George Santayana

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
--- Lord Acton

OBlabby Dishonors The Military Again. So, they Go On Adventure and Die. 'Is' Adventuring The Truth of 'It' yOu Piece of Shat PitifulPeacePrizin'POtus.

When are The Joint Chiefs and Greater Military Forces going to Have Enough Dishonoring Blabber from this False Commander in Chief? Dying, Injuries and Service under His 'Commanding' recieves Constant, Blatant Attacks on Character and Honor.

I served under Johnson and Nixon I didn't have a choice who the commanders were. It is called discipline and swearing to protect and defend the Constitution. That is what keeps US from becoming a Ukraine.

He does that to cover his tracks Julie (he calls those posts "redundant" if I remember rightly) which he answered in one of the other threads around around here (it also looks like he may have done it to a few more of his other posts around here just today again).